Social Media and Terrorism in Era of Uncertainty

Rizka Nurul Amanah

2018

Abstract

Indonesia is the third largest Facebook user country in the world after India and the United States of America. Indonesia is also the fourth largest country of Instagram users. Meanwhile, many Indonesians are caught in a circle of terrorism through social media today. If previously complicit involvement in radical groups has been hidden, social media has spawned unregistered members, supporters, and new sympathizers of the radical groups. This situation poses a threat to Indonesia security as Indonesia is a protracted social conflict country. The open access to social media makes it more difficult to monitor the development of the radical group. It opens a transitional path way used by radical groups in recruitment while the government does not have a proper law enforcement system related to terrorism in social media. The threat itself is not only for the Indonesians who live in Indonesia. The migrant workers are also prone to this threat. They also become the target of radical groups who do the recruitment through social media. Hence, this becomes a global threat. Some Indonesian migrant workers are involved in planning terrorist acts in Indonesia even when they are abroad. They got to know Indonesian radical groups from the social media. Looking at this the phenomenon, this paper discusses how the development of terrorism and social media become a new security threat in the era of uncertainty. Because terrorism is not only a threat to uses a qualitative approach an observation of the case was formulated by using the perspective of globalization and security approach.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nurul Amanah R. (2018). Social Media and Terrorism in Era of Uncertainty.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 1542-1549. DOI: 10.5220/0009931515421549

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Rizka Nurul Amanah},
title={Social Media and Terrorism in Era of Uncertainty},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={1542-1549},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009931515421549},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Social Media and Terrorism in Era of Uncertainty
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Nurul Amanah R.
PY - 2018
SP - 1542
EP - 1549
DO - 10.5220/0009931515421549